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Village of Il-Kalkara (Malta)

Calcara, Kalkara

3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 October 2010

Description
Former flag
Change in coat of arms

See also:

Subnational Flags (Malta)
Malta

Other sites:

Coat-of-arms of Kalkara at the Local Council website

Description

Blazon: Per fess Or and Azure in base a flame proper, bordure Vert.
Željko Heimer, 8 November 2002

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkara, "kalkara" means "kiln" in Maltese, making this coat of arms and its banner of arms yet another example of canting arms and flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 January 2007

More precisely, a "kalkara" must be a lime kiln. In Latin, lime is called "calx, calcis", which gave in French the roots calc-, calci-, calcio- and calco-, used in several lime-related words such as "chaux" (lime), "calcaire" (limestone), "calcium", "calciner" (to calcine) and other scientific words. The root was transferred as calci- etc. in Spanish and English and as kalk- in German and Dutch (and therefore probably in several other languages, including Maltese).
Ivan Sache, 22 January 2007

Former Flag

3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 January 2007

Flag is banner of arms, blazoned Per fess Or and Azure in base a flame proper.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 January 2007

Change in Coat of Arms

Kindly be informed that the logo and flag for Il-Kalkara has changed as from 2009. The new logo shows the flame erupting from the line joining the yellow and blue fields and the addition of a green bordure.
Kav. Duncan Brincat B.Com.(Hons.), OBSS
Segretarju Generali Secretary General
Circolo San Giuseppe Filarmonika Sagra Familja, Kalkara (Malta) A.D. 1897
web: www.sagrafamilja.org